TCA „With another look“ Equal II. Initiative 4.G. reducing the gender gaps

GENDER MAINSTREAMING in Reproductive Health services Project for the Equal II. Initiative - 4.G. reducing the gender gaps Project No: SK/42 Ing. Olga Pietruchova

Project goal To enforce gender equality in the labour process according to the EU principles -Pilot project in Slovakia - no tradition and little expertise

Project objectives To prepare a complex methodology for the gender gap reduction in the labour process To introduce gender-specific approach in medical education and decision-making processes in offices of reproduction health

Expected outcomes Survey and database on the gender relation in the medical education and in the reproductive health services (RHS) Elaborated proposal of affirmative actions aimed to decrease the gender gap, disseminated among the experts Improved gender sensibility in the medical eduation and in the reproductive health services

Activities - research quantitative research on the gender relations in the medical education and at the clinics, particularly focusing an RHS qualitative research and gender analysis on the gender relations in the medical education and at the clinics, particularly focusing an the RHS research on the gender context and identification: „what does gender mean for me?“ - focus group discussion - deap interview

Activities - education train-of-trainers education for gender trainings: content of trainings: - gender/sex, gender stereotypes, gender relations - gender and work – gender gap, reasons - gender mainstreaming – theory and policy, gender analysis, positive action, elaborating and implementing of gender sensitive approach into medical education (pilot project on selected university)

Activities - TCA developing measures to increase the women participation and gender specific approach using the foreign experts – conference disemination on project results

Partners Slovak Family Planning Association (SFPA) Slovak Accademie of Science - Department of Social and Biological Communication Gender Studies Centre in Bratislava

SFPA non governmental organisation (NGO), established 1991 Member organisation of IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) Organisation comprises mostly of professionals (physicians, nurses, teachers, psychologist, journalist, lawyers) acting in the area of family planning, sexual and reproductive health and gender equality Mission of the Slovak FPA is to support a responsible and cultivated sexual behaviour of men and women, gender equality and defend basic human right in the field of sexual and reproductive health.

Slovak Academy of Sciences Department of Social and Biological Communication was established in 1990 as a centre of basic research into complex relations between the biological, social and cultural aspects of human existence. Mission: to focus on the communication which is both the subject of research and its methodological framework. Research: - the issues of health and healthy life style (psychology of sexual health; specific aspects of education in relation to differences in cognitive development; environment and human behaviour; risk behaviour; life style), - the issues of human mental, individual, social, and cultural identity.

Gender Studies Centre University based research and educational institution at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava, established in June 2001 Goals: promotion of scientific research activities thematically focused on gender issues and starting from methodological approaches created in feminist theories integration of the gender perspective into social sciences and their enrichment by new issues, approaches and results opening up the space for interdisciplinary discussions on gender issues from a historical perspective and also the perspective of women and men in contemporary society